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★Established ------------- 24th October 1945 by 51 countries
★Headquarter ------------- New York, United States
★Official languages ------------- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
★Total Membership ------------- 193 member
★Present Secretary General ------------- Ban Ki-moon
★First Secretary General ------------- Trygve Lie, Norway
★United Nations was established ------------- San Francisco City
★Permanent Members in Security Council ------------- Russia, USA, France, China and UK.
★Logo designer of the United Nations ------------- Donal McLaughlin
★Newest Member in UN ------------- South Sudan, 14th July 2011
★Six Principal Organs The General Assembly ------------- The Security
Council
The Economic and Social Council
The Secretariat
The International Court of Justice
The United Nations Trusteeship Council
Organizations and specialized agencies of the United Nations :
Name Headquarters Established
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Rome, Italy
1945
International Labour Organization (ILO) Geneva, Switzerland 1946
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
London, United Kingdom 1948
World Food Programme (WFP)
Rome, Italy 1963
World Health Organization (WHO)
Geneva, Switzerland
1948
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Vienna, Austria 1957
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Madrid, Spain
1974
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Bern, Switzerland
1947
International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) Montreal, Canada 1947
International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD)
Rome, Italy
1977
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Washington, D.C., USA 1945
World Bank (WB)
Washington, D.C., USA
1944
World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) Geneva, Switzerland
1974
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Geneva, Switzerland 1950
United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO)
Vienna, Austria 1967
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Paris, France 1946
The UN has 4 main purposes :
★ To keep peace throughout the world
★ To develop friendly relations among nations
★ To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms
★ To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals
